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- May 30, 2008
- Location
- Upstate, SC
Hello all, first off I'd like to thank this forum. I haven't posted much but I've been trolling quite regularly. Between this board and an OCing friend of mine, I built my first rig (in sig) a couple of months ago.
Well, I'm already planning out my REbuild for next summer and I've hit a slight bend in the road.
The whole point in the REbuild began with me wanting a new chassis. I'm 99% set on the CM Storm Sniper.
Well there's no point in moving everything over without upgrading, so I then decided to do either a RAID 1 or RAID 1+0. I'm not as worried about speed as I am to quell my own paranoia of data loss.
Then I decided to buy another 5670 to set-up in Crossfire.
Well why the hell not upgrade to a Phenom II X4 965 in the process with an undecided quiet Cooler Master CPU cooler.
I will need more power, so I'm jumping that up to a Thermaltake Toughpower 675W. Plus, I read Thermaltake PSUs run pretty quiet and my current Antec is the loudest piece of my rig.
Well since I'm doing the Crossfire and CPU upgrade, I have to get a new MOBO.
Here's where my fundamental questions come into play. With the knowledge of my current and future setup ( and the hardware combinations ) what are the necessities I need to look for?
Obviously an ATI NB and at least 2 PCIe slots.
What are the differences between mATX and ATX boards?
My friend is dead set on Gigabyte boards, but I've read a lot of good things about Asus boards. Suggestions?
Lastly, I want to stay under $160 and I want cool and quiet. Cool is why I'm with AMD and ATI versus Intel and nVidia. I like to run cool and quiet, even if that means sacrificing a bit of performance. It's just my pet peeves.
Sorry for the book, but I just wanted to get all the information I thought would help in guiding me towards a board out there in the beginning.
Thanks in advance for the help, guys.
Well, I'm already planning out my REbuild for next summer and I've hit a slight bend in the road.
The whole point in the REbuild began with me wanting a new chassis. I'm 99% set on the CM Storm Sniper.
Well there's no point in moving everything over without upgrading, so I then decided to do either a RAID 1 or RAID 1+0. I'm not as worried about speed as I am to quell my own paranoia of data loss.
Then I decided to buy another 5670 to set-up in Crossfire.
Well why the hell not upgrade to a Phenom II X4 965 in the process with an undecided quiet Cooler Master CPU cooler.
I will need more power, so I'm jumping that up to a Thermaltake Toughpower 675W. Plus, I read Thermaltake PSUs run pretty quiet and my current Antec is the loudest piece of my rig.
Well since I'm doing the Crossfire and CPU upgrade, I have to get a new MOBO.
Here's where my fundamental questions come into play. With the knowledge of my current and future setup ( and the hardware combinations ) what are the necessities I need to look for?
Obviously an ATI NB and at least 2 PCIe slots.
What are the differences between mATX and ATX boards?
My friend is dead set on Gigabyte boards, but I've read a lot of good things about Asus boards. Suggestions?
Lastly, I want to stay under $160 and I want cool and quiet. Cool is why I'm with AMD and ATI versus Intel and nVidia. I like to run cool and quiet, even if that means sacrificing a bit of performance. It's just my pet peeves.
Sorry for the book, but I just wanted to get all the information I thought would help in guiding me towards a board out there in the beginning.
Thanks in advance for the help, guys.
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